Engineer - Core Applications GroupTumblr

THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED

An engineer who understands computing and data and loves to make the tools that underlie our applications, API, and data storage.

What You'll Do:

Create and improve the tools that enable the creation, maintenance, and presentation of over 130 million blogs of incredible content.
Write robust, pragmatic code in PHP, Ruby, Scala, and others.
Collaborate with a talented team of designers and fellow engineers.
Challenge yourself and grow.
What We're Looking For:

An aggressive stance on attacking problems and features.
A passion for building tools you would be proud to share with other engineers.
Experience with a variety of tools, systems, algorithms, and practices.
A desire to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
The initiative to dig in on a problem and the guts to take a position on the way it should be solved.
Working knowledge of a diverse toolset including scripting and compiled languages, relational and non-relational databases, etc. We can teach you our stack, but we can't make you understand computing.
Tools We Like:

PHP5, Scala, Ruby
MySQL, Redis
Varnish, Memcached
Hadoop, Hive, Pig
Kafka
git
Tumblr is a New York City start up that empowers creators and explorers. Founded by David Karp in 2007, Tumblr is now home to more than 130 million tumblelogs and 58 billion posts across a wide swath of communities and topics. From our headquarters near Union Square, our highly caffeinated engineers work in an open, positive and collaborative environment. We focus on creating intuitive and beautiful ways to share, discover and connect, while engineering new ways to bring Tumblr to more people around the world.